If you are a private company owner CEO, you face enormous challenges to scale your business. I don’t mean just grow. I mean scale. Building control, predictability, alignment and safety into your growth. Successful scaling sees market share growth, margins...

In business and in life in general, the ability to move people to your point of view is a rare skill. I’m talking about setting out a better way forward that you passionately believe in, that cuts through bias with impeccable logic but addresses the emotion on...

This is Part Two of a post reviewing Simon Sinek’s 10 Rules For Success. Simon’s talk “How Great Leaders Inspire Action” has had over 37 million views. He has the ability to codify quite complex behaviors and therefore bring insight to leaders...

You may not have heard of Simon Sinek, ex-professor of strategic communications at Columbia University, who is better known to a wider global audience for his talks at TED conferences. His talk “How Great Leaders Inspire Action” has had over 37 million...

Why do so some companies win and others fail? How is it possible for a new management team to transform the performance of a business? What is the essential difference between winners and losers? In a previous post a few years ago I emphasized the importance of...

I’ve always been fascinated with what motivates someone to jump into their day! There were plenty of Glaswegians born in 1959 but not all chose a path of education to become a Scottish CA, run to London as the ink was drying on their CA qualification to take up...